Originally I wasn’t going to Coker with how busy we have been, but the fomo kicked in about 8pm Saturday night when a buddy asked if I wanted to go watch. I wasn’t going to drive 3 hours each way just to watch considering I’ve only missed one Camp Coker since the series started coming to this venue. Enter the 2 hour fast paced trail ride. 600 riders in the AM race and a fat redneck that prepped bike and gear 14 hours before the race. Good race considering I have not ridden since this one last year. Life and adulting got in the way.
Shit start as always, knowing the track helped and I quickly worked into the top 10 in class knowing most passing needed to happen before the 4 where it ducks into 4 miles of handlebar width singletrack and passing in there is sketchy. Finished lap 1 in 6th, picked off 5th, smashed my left foot on a stump in the middle of lap 2, couldn’t feel the peg for about 3 miles, feeling came back/adrenaline kicked in. Cruised into lap 3 and got the white flag. Ended up 4th after the official results came in. Whoever was listed in 1st got recorded as a dnf once things were official. Took a visit to the SOS Med tent to see Dr Tanner after the race. Had to get my pinkie toe sewn up and he did an X ray for good measure. No broken toes, just very mangled and split open from the pressure of hitting the stump. Gaerne SG12’s did their job.
It was so dusty and blown out for the pro race I didn’t take any pictures. You couldn’t see a damn thing. Had a good chat with Stu Baylor in the med tent before he went out and I was getting stitched up. Gutted that he had another mechanical with half a lap to go. That really fubar’d his championship standings. As dusty as it was, I don’t think he did a filter swap and that might have gotten the best of the Kawi.
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hell it was almost too short notice for me as it was damn near my bedtime before I got done prepping the bike and gear for a 5am wake up.
